shadbush , auch: shadblow

It derives its name from the thick shadbush growing on top.

What's not to like about a shadbush?

Even a tiny lawn, which is useless to birds, could sport a shadbush and a crab apple tree.

Some of the buds will be long and thin as those of the birches or shadbush.

I love the deer, but they have eaten every shadbush, redbud and dogwood from the woods.

The flowers appear in early spring, "when the shad run" according to tradition (leading to names such as "shadbush").

Amelanchier humilis, commonly known as the low shadbush, is a species of serviceberry.

Since then, the shadbush has bloomed and so have the elderberry and the crabapple.

And eventually the sun coaxes out the first flowers on red maples, shadbush and poplars.

One in particular is the shadbush, one of the first trees to flower in the spring, when the shad are running - thus, the name.

Along the roadside, sometimes in the wetlands behind the dunes and everywhere across windswept parkland, bloom variations of the shadbush.

Even the green of yards and hedges gives way all at once to the tan of sand and the dusty gray-green of shadbush.

And the Amelanchier, known as the serviceberry, Juneberry or shadbush, has delicate white blossoms and heart-shaped leaves.

Ms. Sellers was especially taken with the rocky coastline, its hillsides billowing with shadbush and bayberry and beach rose.

Amelanchier sanguinea, known as red-twigged shadbush or roundleaf serviceberry, is a shrub native to eastern North America.

If you live by a windy beach, consider planting rugged shrubs like Russian olive, bayberry, beach plum, shadbush and rosa rugosa.

The name Shadmoor has been used for years and refers to the geography and to the shadbush, also known as shadblow or Juneberry, which grows there.

Flowering shrubs like shadbush and preening flowers like trillium are framed by oaks, maples and longleaf pines.

The shrubs include barberry, lilac, jasmine, hazel, honeysuckle, hawthorn, rose hip, viburnum, juniper, elder, shadbush and many others.

The shadbush and the shadberry bloom, and the shad fly and shad frog appear when this seasonal fish is running upstream to spawn.

Montauk enjoys nature reservations where Amelanchier - shadberry, shadblow, shadbush or, more attractively but less accurately named, Juneberry - thrives.

Suddenly, sometime between late March and mid-April, when the lowland shadbush is a bouquet of white blossoms, there is a burst of activity in the streams.

A small play cottage will be surrounded by graceful ornamental grasses and a canopy of colorful shrubs and trees - crab apple, forsythia, shadbush and magnolia.

It doesn't acknowledge that many urban landscapes are too degraded for dogwoods and shadbush, and so many other natives that flourished before the concrete and asphalt.

(Was not from Shelby Township, but owned township land that he donated to build Riverbends Park and the Shadbush nature center.)